Investments...

[Del]

If you had bought $1000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00.
With Enron, you would have $16.50 left of the original $1,000.00. With Worldcom, you would have less than $5.00 left.

If you had bought $1,000.00 worth of Budweiser (the beer, not the stock) one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the cans for the 10-cent deposit, you would have $214.00.

Better than tomatos I believe!!  :-))

[Cal]

... in response to Investments..., posted by Del on Oct 18, 2003

If you had bought 1000 shares of Sirius (SIRI) at $0.48 per share ($509 counting commission) like I did, it would be worth about $2410 now.  Beer and tomatoes are excellent investments however.  Nothing cures a nasty vodka hangover better that a beer and tomato juice mix either! :^)

I'd rather be eating friend green tomatoes and drinking a few cold Buds with a friendly Eastern European girl on a warm fall day like today.

So what's everyone been doing here the past few months?

Cal

[RW]

... in response to Investments..., posted by Del on Oct 18, 2003

my husband calls it 401Keg plan.

How are you doing, Del?

[wsbill]

... in response to Investments..., posted by Del on Oct 18, 2003

Don't pay any taxes and I'm right now in the process of buying a 30x100 greenhouse which will have the capacity for 608 plants, which will yield typically 40lbs per plant.

608x40= with this majic number I will have gross total pounds and if I sold them for $1 a pound - you can just put a dollar sign in front of that total.

However I sell my hydroponic tomatos for $1.50 a pound.
You do the math.

My current greenhouse only generates about $4K a year.

I should add that I've got a 14x48 cold frame greenhouse for 1000 heads of buttercrunch lettuce, which I will produce just 250 heads of lettuce a week.

Will of course do my civic duty to country and report all sells, like all good bizness men.
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This time next year don't be surprised if I'm adding another big greenhouse.   Tomatos sell in my part of the woods...especially the GREEN ones. (thus waiting for it to turn red).

If you wanna buy stocks why don't you buy some USNA, RATE, or MRGE.  

If your risk taker buy some IDNX, they shorts will have to cover one of these days...

[cherokee]

... in response to Re: I get $1.50 cash for my tomatos, posted by wsbill on Oct 18, 2003

5 tomatoes for $1 at our local market. I swear I feel like I'm in Vietnam or Cambodia when we go there. All the produce pushers are Asians as well as most of the buyers.

[wsbill]

... in response to we can buy them for, posted by cherokee on Oct 19, 2003

Alot of people advertise hydroponic, but their not.
Some producers pick them while their green and then gas them, they maybe red but they taste like crap.

Mine are vine ripen and then picked.

[wsbill]

... in response to Re: I get $1.50 cash for my tomatos, posted by wsbill on Oct 18, 2003

So you guys are stuck with me.... But I'll never marry a dopey ole american woman who after marriage tack on 30 lbs a year for life.  It's no wonder why all my married navy buddys have girlfriends in another city, just keeping the family together for the sake of their kids.